By analyzing 1.3 million images collected by a Japanese instrument aboard the spacecraft, the agency created a topographic map covering 99 percent of the globe in a giant grid of measurements.

Made in 2012, the globe features labels for more than 850 ... the maps into CAD software and turned those patches of gray into topographical data. He later turned that into a file that could ...

but with the important additions of topographical severity and the architectural beauties of the Gloucester schooner.” He called it, simply, “the place I had been looking for.” That first ...

An instrument aboard the Terra satellite has generated the most complete digital topographic map of the ... images and covers 99 per cent of the globe, a substantial increase over previous maps ...

Produced from data beamed down from NASA’s Terra spacecraft, the map data represents the most complete and highest-resolution topographical ... data across the globe. The original global digital ...

One of the first projects the fledging Canadian government undertook after Confederation -- printing and storing topographic maps of the country -- may become the victim of cost-cutting ...

Re Ottawa Plots Making Maps Without Paper (Oct. 4): More than 200,000 Canadians buy topographic maps each year, primarily so they can safely enjoy the outdoors -- canoeing, hiking, biking ...

PERTH, Australia, Aug. 20 (UPI) -- Australian scientists say satellite and topographic data has provided ... to expand wireless internet around the globe to untouched places, A sweat-powered ...

CONCORD, N.H. - Laser-equipped aircraft have been scanning the New Hampshire landscape, creating high-resolution topographical maps that could help the state with everything from emergency ...